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Thursday, September 14, 2017

These last six months as I’ve
been working on the coloring book My 100
Daughters, I’ve looked through many photographs of the girls of India.

Eden is at the bottom there because she's donating her dresses to the girls of India.

The girls I’m drawing are growing up in the
leprosy colonies. The girls do not have
leprosy, but their parents or parent does. They have experienced hunger, loneliness
and poverty like I will never understand.
They are considered “untouchables”. Children who grow up in the leprosy colonies
are not allowed to attend school, but it’s not like their parents could afford to
send them anyway. Most children take to
begging and do anything they can to survive.
Even their shadows are considered cursed. Rising Star Outreach is changing all of this.

As I’ve researched the
photographs, traditions, landscape and customs of India,
I noticed the older girls wear the traditional India saris, but the younger girls do
not. I asked Amy at Rising Star why this
is. She said as a girl matures into a
young woman, she is required to wear the customary shawls to cover her bosom.

It
is a form of modesty. Until then, the little girls can wear the same type of dresses my daughter does.

Many little girls literally
wear rags. They deserve better. I’m hoping you’ll help the girls of India by
donating gently used dresses for girls age 12 and younger.

Drop them off at my house or mail
them to Rising Star Outreach 3305 N University Ave #250, Provo,
UT84604.

I
hope to collect/donate 100 dresses for Rising Star Outreach India by
October 11, 2017 – The International Day of the Girl.

My 100 Daughters will be
released October 11, 2017 and will be available on Amazon.

I have partnered with Rising Star Outreach and 50% of the proceeds will go to India. Please consider sponsoring a girl today. It costs just $1.00 a day. Call (801) 960-9620 and say you’d like to
contribute to the 100 Daughters
fund.

What is My Dear Trash?

After I was sexually abused, I felt like trash. Through God's love, I was able to find my worth again. My Dear Trash is about finding value where others may not see it, in ourselves, in our world, in our unborn and in our relationships and with God.

View the book trailer for my memoir Starving Girl by clicking on the image below.